On 2019-07-17 12:34:41 +0100, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
> We make extensive use of postgresql 'contacting' an external process,
> but our use case involves many databases in a cluster rather than many
> schemas. Also we don't have to deal with cancelling the external
> process. We chose this architecture to avoid many postgresql
> connections for LISTEN/NOTIFY.
>
> We use a pgmemcache interface trigger to update memcached with a
> notification of the database holding items to be flushed.
Memcached is a cache. It will delete old items if storage is full (or if
they expire). Is this not a problem in your case or did you make sure
that this cannot happen?
hp
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